November 30- Dec 1, 2015

Learning Targets:
I can explain the significance of the election of 1860.
I can give qualities of Lincoln through his writings.

Daily Questions
Evaluate how the administration of Polk affected Manifest Destiny

Agenda 
Daily Question:
Lecture on Election of 1860-Lincoln
Lincoln Video Clip
Lincoln Primary Documents

Last Binder Check

Monroe Presidency Flow Chart         / 10
Second Great Awakening                  /10
Oregon Trail Simulation                    /10
John Brown Movie                            /10
Crash Course 14 -Jackson                 /15
Calhoun vs. Garrison Comparison    /15

November 18-19, 2015

Learning Target:
I can identify and explain key terms relating to manifest destiny.

Daily Question:
1. The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT:

(A) Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.
(B) The use of land for settled agriculture was preferable to its use for nomadic hunting.
(C) Westward expansion was both inevitable and beneficial.
(D) God had selected America as a chosen land and people.
(E) The ultimate extent of the American domain was to be from the tropics to the Arctic.

2. How awesome was James K. Polk?

(A) Awesome
(B) Really Awesome

Agenda:
Daily Question
Reading Groups
Crash Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdF8pOFUfI&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=17

November 16-17, 2015

Daily Question

Take a few minutes to gather your notes and prepare for the exam

Agenda

Exam
Work on Chapter 17 Reading Notes

Unit 4 Test Review

Terms and Ideas to Remember

• Slavery in the Southwest
• 1820 Missouri Compromise
• Connections between the Hartford Convention, the nullification crisis, Marshall Court decisions
• Tariff of 1828
• Western expansion during the antebellum era
• Monroe Doctrine
• purpose of Jay's Treaty, Treaty of Ghent, Adams-Onis Treaty, and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
• purpose of the War of 1812
• The American System of internal improvements
• The cult of Domesticity, Gibson Girls, Bloomerism, Republican Motherhood
• Impacts of the cultivation of Southern cash crops
• Where did the majority of Irish immigrants settle between 1840-1850
• That did these things connect
• Transcontinental railroad
• National Road
• Cumberland Gap
• Erie Canal
• Connections between the forced relocation of American Indians and the internal slave trade
• What increased the economic linkage of the North and Midwest during the antebellum era?
• The growth of cotton in the South did what?
• Lowell system
• Antebellum technological innovations
• machinery, steam engine, telegraph, interchangeable parts, etc.
• Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, Richard Allen, David Walker
• Connections between American Indians, Women, and religious followers during the antebellum era.
• American art and literature in the early 1800's
• Immigrants in the 1840's and 1850's 
• American Colonization Society
• Free-Soil Party
• Abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights in the antebellum era
• John C. Calhoun 1837 speech
• When were political debates least affected by regional and sectional differenes
• Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Vorcester v. Georgia, Dartmouth v. Woodward
• What group supported the idea of the "common man" and welcomed immigrants

November 12-13, 2015

Learning Target:
I can identify the key events and issues that lead to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Daily Question:
The Dred Scott decision angered northerners because it

   A   said the Republican party was unconstitutional.
   B   allowed slavery in all territories.
   C   said John Brown was guilty of murder.
   D   upheld the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

Agenda:

Finish Lecture
Movie Clips
Primary Sources
Test Review

November 10-11, 2015

Monday, November 9, 2015

November 10, 2015

Learning Target:

I can relate important participants in slavery and the abolition movement to the important themes of that time.
I can identify important contributions of participants in slavery and the abolition movement.

“[T]he condition of the African race throughout all the States where the ancient relation between the two [races] has been retained enjoys a degree of health and comfort which may well compare with that of the laboring population of any country in Christendom; and, it may be added that in no other condition, or in any other age or country, has the Negro race ever attained so high an elevation in morals, intelligence, or civilization.”

John C. Calhoun, political leader, 1844 

Which of the following most directly undermines Calhoun’s assertions? 

(A) Many slaves adopted elements of Christianity. 

(B) Many slaves engaged in forms of resistance to slavery. 

(C) Abolitionist societies encountered difficulty organizing in Southern states. 

(D) A majority of White Southerners were not slaveholders.

Agenda

Daily Question
Lecture

Video Clip